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The Rusticity of Ben Jonson

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Jonson and Shakespeare

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The expected word is ‘urbanity’: the ‘urbanity’ of Jonson, as a poet at least, has become something of a cliche. The locus classicus is F. R. Leavis’s chapter on ‘The Line of Wit’ in Revaluation. In this he talks about Jonson’s versions of Catullus:

Come my Celia, let us prove,

While we may, the sports of love

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  1. J. B. Bamborough
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  1. Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Ian Donaldson (Professor of English and Director) (Professor of English and Director)

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Bamborough, J.B. (1983). The Rusticity of Ben Jonson. In: Donaldson, I. (eds) Jonson and Shakespeare. The Humanities Research Centre/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06183-9_9

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